. Reminiscences, or, Four years in the Confederate Army : a history of the experiences of the private soldier in camp, hospital, prison, on the march, and on the battlefield, 1861 to 1865 . were coming. We struck out for Irvine and aboutsundown it began to rain and it rained so hard that whenwe reached Red river we found it raging. We had towait for the waters to recede and got across a little be-fore daylight the next morning. We captured a smallwagon train about daylight, destroyed the wagons, pa-roled the guards and drivers and carried the mules alongwith us. Every delay was dangerous and w
. Reminiscences, or, Four years in the Confederate Army : a history of the experiences of the private soldier in camp, hospital, prison, on the march, and on the battlefield, 1861 to 1865 . were coming. We struck out for Irvine and aboutsundown it began to rain and it rained so hard that whenwe reached Red river we found it raging. We had towait for the waters to recede and got across a little be-fore daylight the next morning. We captured a smallwagon train about daylight, destroyed the wagons, pa-roled the guards and drivers and carried the mules alongwith us. Every delay was dangerous and we were grow-. Sam Davis THE MARTYR. BY A PRIVATE SOLDIER. IO9 ing a little uneasy. We were in a hurry to reach tlu?mountains and hoped to get into the gap near Irvine be-fore we had any more fighting to do. This wasnt to be,for we found at Irvine two regiments of infantry with twomountain howitzers guarding a large lot of governmentsupplies. We couldnt afford to be very polite, so with-out any ceremony we charged them and drove them off,captured their cannon and all their stores, but unfortu-nately for us, they retreated into the very gap that wewere making for. As it was fortified and we were soclosely crowded in the rear we had no time to try to dis-lodge them as they would be reinforced before we couldwhip them, so we had to run for it. After helping our-selves to what we needed we set the rest on fire and withour two extra cannon took the first road that we came Yankees were so certain that they would pocket usat Irvine that they had directed all their force exceptWolfords cavalry, on th
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